So a heavy machine gunner can take an extended action to set up his "Kill cone" or "Killone", where each enemy unit entering it has to beat his Skill roll to detect them or else they get a belly full of lead.Each additional arc outside of his killone increases his Skill and Auto Penalties by one.

Nah, forget about skill rolls and penalties. Just set up a normal exposure damage field hazard 8 or 10 in long with 1d6, 2d6, or whatever caliber your machine gun is. Give the field whatever kind of arc you want that makes sense. Given the nature of the zone, both friend and foe will be shot to bits if they enter it. Stealthy units could sneak through using normal stealth rules, but your normal grunt won't have that much forethought.

Rev. Sylvanus wrote:Nah, forget about skill rolls and penalties. Just set up a normal exposure damage field hazard 8 or 10 in long with 1d6, 2d6, or whatever caliber your machine gun is. Give the field whatever kind of arc you want that makes sense. Given the nature of the zone, both friend and foe will be shot to bits if they enter it. Stealthy units could sneak through using normal stealth rules, but your normal grunt won't have that much forethought.

Eh, that kind of seems cheap really...I mean, you are basically having the machine gunner continuously firing his weapon without penalty on the caveat that his Killone is a hazard to both friend and foe.Plus an anorak might exploit "what ever kind of arc that makes sense" with, "My guy can swivel his machine gun 360 degrees, so he creates an 8" radius circular killone!"

Besides, this sounds like a better job for a Scanner-brand Acute Magnetron Microwave Headasploder then an Autogun...

Remember that for balance purposes, Field Hazards cost inches of Weapon Size. If you have a machine gun spraying a Size 8" Hazard, then it needs to be mounted on a structure large enough to support the existence of a Size 8" Hazard. Otherwise it doesn't have the resources it needs (like unlimited ammunition).

Natalya wrote:What's that? I can't hear you over the sound of how banned you are.

Rev. Sylvanus wrote:Nah, forget about skill rolls and penalties. Just set up a normal exposure damage field hazard 8 or 10 in long with 1d6, 2d6, or whatever caliber your machine gun is. Give the field whatever kind of arc you want that makes sense. Given the nature of the zone, both friend and foe will be shot to bits if they enter it. Stealthy units could sneak through using normal stealth rules, but your normal grunt won't have that much forethought.

Eh, that kind of seems cheap really...I mean, you are basically having the machine gunner continuously firing his weapon without penalty on the caveat that his Killone is a hazard to both friend and foe.Plus an anorak might exploit "what ever kind of arc that makes sense" with, "My guy can swivel his machine gun 360 degrees, so he creates an 8" radius circular killone!"

Besides, this sounds like a better job for a Scanner-brand Acute Magnetron Microwave Headasploder then an Autogun...

Yeah this is why I'd want a skill roll in there, even if it can be assumed that the shot automatically hits. The gunner should have SOME opportunity to run out of bullets, and rolling lower than the current shot # for the turn is already how auto-guns work. This also might help justify it in light of field hazards needing to be mounted to support their inches of weapon size, anyways.

stubby wrote:Remember that for balance purposes, Field Hazards cost inches of Weapon Size. If you have a machine gun spraying a Size 8" Hazard, then it needs to be mounted on a structure large enough to support the existence of a Size 8" Hazard. Otherwise it doesn't have the resources it needs (like unlimited ammunition).

IVhorseman wrote:Yeah this is why I'd want a skill roll in there, even if it can be assumed that the shot automatically hits. The gunner should have SOME opportunity to run out of bullets, and rolling lower than the current shot # for the turn is already how auto-guns work. This also might help justify it in light of field hazards needing to be mounted to support their inches of weapon size, anyways.

Indeed, plus it leads to the lulz of having a charge where the guy in front somehow avoids getting turned into salsa only for the guy immediately behind him to miraculously be filled full of holes.

stubby wrote:Your parents have no objections to the fact that I just gave you several chapters describing all of the ways you can simulate the brutal slaughter of living, thinking beings. You are training to be the worst that humanity has to offer, and they don't even bat an eye.

But now that I've posted a cartoon caricature of the plastic toy version of a pair of harmless anatomical features possessed by fully half of the human population and necessary to the basic continuance of life, THIS is where they're freaking out. God damn but your parents are stupid.

Allright, so in the above "boobs" textbox in the species chapter, there's a few grammar errors or something that are making that second paragraph pretty choppy and hard to understand.

perhaps try

But now that I've posted a cartoon caricature of the plastic toy version of a pair of harmless anatomical features possessed by fully half of the human population which are necessary to the basic continuance of life, THIS is the point where they're freaking out. God damn; your parents are stupid.